Icelandic act Kuggur, a project by Guðmundur Óli Pálmason (Katla, ex-Sólstafir), released a new single, "There's No Reason To Be Afraid". The single is taken from the upcoming album, Interglacial, which will be released on 21 November via Bark At Your Owner Publishing. The song features Swedish musician Anders Ericsson, a Swedish legend known from Lustans Lakejer and a former member of Ubangi now operating under the moniker Svart Tulpan.

Guðmundur comments: "My label boss, John Cloud, a man extraordinary, had already pitched another one of my songs to Anders Ericsson. Anders had already agreed to sing on, and delivered amazing vocals for that one (if I didn't know John to be such a sweet guy, I'd swear he must have some shit on Anders! This must have been some blackmailing involved!)
Anders did such an amazing job on the first one that I thought I must try my luck and see if he'll do another. He ended up doing three songs for this album. Without going into details, the song has to do with the transitions between glacial and interglacial times. The transition from a glacial maximum to a glacial minimum, in other words, it's about change. We're petrified of changes, all of us, and understandably so, because one change leads to another, which ultimately leads to our end. Anders likes to argue though, that there's no reason to be afraid, and I don't know about you but there's something in his voice that makes me believe him."

Interglacial is a concept album about the great change that is upon us. The change is like a glacier advancing slowly towards us, but now it's calving in front of us, it comes crashing down upon us, sending shockwaves not just through the muddy glacial waters of the music industry, but through every corner of human intuition and artistic creation. We're heading to an AI glacier maximum, where the machine will replace the human mind. But the machine is dead, the machine is cold, the machine is frozen. If we are to survive as artists and as humans, we'll need to learn to live side by side with the machine, carving out warm, creative valleys between the machine's frozen outlet glaciers.

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